African Football Discussion Thread {Male & Female} Current Topic: 👉 WAFCON

[Spaceman1000$]

Nigeria will play Russia on June 6th. It is an international friendly game. Are you going to be? If yes, who do you think will win. For some statistics Russia have won all their matches against other countries since September 2024. While Nigeria has drawn 2, won 2 and lost 1 since November 2024. Do you think the Super Eagles are capable of winning Russia?

Friendly matches is very much needed for the super eagles to start getting their bones strong. Super eagles can win them if they're not complete but if they came with all the people that will be heading Russia next year world Cup then super eagles cannot win them because among all the countries on there continent they are part of the top country, though there is what thing about friendly I don't like which is not being serious because I have watched a lot of countries with high energy on national league but during friendly they don't put energy on them, so that is what Russia might possibly do because even if super eagles won them they will not feel bad but if eventually they meet again on the real time then we will no the difference. 

I wish to bet this game when the time comes, because it will be interesting to know how the performance would go for the two countries, as Nigerian Super Eagles now have sets of qualified players and could deliver and then to the Russian team as well, they wouldn't want to allow anything break their record of consistencies, but since it was on a friendly manner, then we may say that this will also be a measure to know what to expect from each side after then.

Won't be a bad game to bet, the super Eagles have some players with good quality, we know they can be inconsistent in some instances, especially looking at their world cup qualification challenges, but not withstanding, I haven't seen Russia national team play in a while, their presence in most European competitions have not been felt, so I really don't know how to place them at moment in terms of performance, so even if i want to bet, it will a bit difficult for me to place a bet, I will just rather keep an open mind and watch the outcome that game.

[Felicity_Tide]

~snip

He might be a good signing for them but not for Osimhen. I'll prefer he goes to Chelsea than Man united because it seems the only thing not working for Chelsea now is their striker as they have a strong team that can compete for trophies when they get a striker like Osimhen.

Man united are in their worst form and although the same can be said for Chelsea but one is likely going to be playing in the champions league or Europa next season while the other is in the bottom of the table and only had been capable of avoiding relegation.

Victor Osimhen only doesn't need to be playing in a top European league but also in the champions league so he needs a better club that can get him that exposure and also the chances of winning a trophy and I think Chelsea is a better fix.

I think the whole Osimhen story now boils down to the club that can matches his pay, and not just the club that makes it to any European competition. He his a top player, and he deserves to play in European competitions, but salary factor might definitely come in, and I think only Chelsea has that financial ability to even negotiate a payment deal with him, except Manchester united is willing to break their bank for him(which I don't think so, based on how they've been cutting cost lately).

Oshimen, at this point just have to make a very good decision for himself. There are some deals that ends up ruining a players career, and I hope he doesn't make one.

[Marykeller]

Nigeria will play Russia on June 6th. It is an international friendly game. Are you going to be? If yes, who do you think will win. For some statistics Russia have won all their matches against other countries since September 2024. While Nigeria has drawn 2, won 2 and lost 1 since November 2024. Do you think the Super Eagles are capable of winning Russia?

It is a friendly match, any team can win against each other. It will not be counted on if Super Eagles win or Russia wins. What both teams are after is the best playing position for the team. How prepared and coordinated are the teams when they face a tough team? Do they have a chance to win or lose woefully? The result of the friendly match will tell how improved the team is, for the coach, whether improvements have been made in the team or something is lacking in the team. The coach will be in a better position to know all that, and to give the right response to that to tackle whatever mess in the team to stay formidable

[Kelward]

Nigeria will play Russia on June 6th. It is an international friendly game. Are you going to be? If yes, who do you think will win. For some statistics Russia have won all their matches against other countries since September 2024. While Nigeria has drawn 2, won 2 and lost 1 since November 2024. Do you think the Super Eagles are capable of winning Russia?

It is a friendly match, any team can win against each other. It will not be counted on if Super Eagles win or Russia wins. What both teams are after is the best playing position for the team. How prepared and coordinated are the teams when they face a tough team? Do they have a chance to win or lose woefully? The result of the friendly match will tell how improved the team is, for the coach, whether improvements have been made in the team or something is lacking in the team. The coach will be in a better position to know all that, and to give the right response to that to tackle whatever mess in the team to stay formidable

Some bettors don't make too much analysis where it concerns friendly matches, they will say that players don't put on their very best performances. If I feel like putting my money on the match I can go for the super eagles for patriotism sake with amount that I can afford to loose. Friendlies are nothing but warm ups for the two teams, I don't expect to see any spectacular displays because they'll be avoiding injuries. I hope that the super eagles will win because it'll be a morale booster for them, if they don't, let it be a good lesson for them to prepare well for a match that will count.

[Callido]

Nigeria will play Russia on June 6th. It is an international friendly game. Are you going to be? If yes, who do you think will win. For some statistics Russia have won all their matches against other countries since September 2024. While Nigeria has drawn 2, won 2 and lost 1 since November 2024. Do you think the Super Eagles are capable of winning Russia?

It is a friendly match, any team can win against each other. It will not be counted on if Super Eagles win or Russia wins. What both teams are after is the best playing position for the team. How prepared and coordinated are the teams when they face a tough team? Do they have a chance to win or lose woefully? The result of the friendly match will tell how improved the team is, for the coach, whether improvements have been made in the team or something is lacking in the team. The coach will be in a better position to know all that, and to give the right response to that to tackle whatever mess in the team to stay formidable

Some bettors don't make too much analysis where it concerns friendly matches, they will say that players don't put on their very best performances. If I feel like putting my money on the match I can go for the super eagles for patriotism sake with amount that I can afford to loose. Friendlies are nothing but warm ups for the two teams, I don't expect to see any spectacular displays because they'll be avoiding injuries. I hope that the super eagles will win because it'll be a morale booster for them, if they don't, let it be a good lesson for them to prepare well for a match that will count.

For me, i think the match will end in an equal score, we've lost many important games, and considering this to be a warm up i think they will try to pull out something better just to make up for losing their last important game. Our game will be played safely to avoid injuries, it also goes for Russians to play safe so the game won't be much heated as it will be if it were a main competition, however i believe in our brothers to defend our country as a team and give us something to brag about.

[DiMarxist]

The 2026 World Cup Qualification:

Nigerian Super Eagles is in the danger zone of the group and their qualification is very slim. And the Super Eagles have to secure all the remaining 12 points to qualify has the best team in the group and in that case they have to win all the remaining 4 games to get the 12 points.
The third leg of the World Cup Qualifiers will kick start from September to October 2025.

[Pokapoka124]

Nigeria will play Russia on June 6th. It is an international friendly game. Are you going to be? If yes, who do you think will win. For some statistics Russia have won all their matches against other countries since September 2024. While Nigeria has drawn 2, won 2 and lost 1 since November 2024. Do you think the Super Eagles are capable of winning Russia?

Friendly matches is very much needed for the super eagles to start getting their bones strong. Super eagles can win them if they're not complete but if they came with all the people that will be heading Russia next year world Cup then super eagles cannot win them because among all the countries on there continent they are part of the top country, though there is what thing about friendly I don't like which is not being serious because I have watched a lot of countries with high energy on national league but during friendly they don't put energy on them, so that is what Russia might possibly do because even if super eagles won them they will not feel bad but if eventually they meet again on the real time then we will no the difference. 

The fact that the game is a friendly will also impact the intensity of the game. I am not expecting too much but a free flowing football game. My prayer  is that the Super Eagles represent Nigeria well by beating Russia. We have the squad and quality to be able to do so.

[Roseline492]

Friendly matches is very much needed for the super eagles to start getting their bones strong. Super eagles can win them if they're not complete but if they came with all the people that will be heading Russia next year world Cup then super eagles cannot win them because among all the countries on there continent they are part of the top country, though there is what thing about friendly I don't like which is not being serious because I have watched a lot of countries with high energy on national league but during friendly they don't put energy on them, so that is what Russia might possibly do because even if super eagles won them they will not feel bad but if eventually they meet again on the real time then we will no the difference. 

The fact that the game is a friendly will also impact the intensity of the game. I am not expecting too much but a free flowing football game. My prayer  is that the Super Eagles represent Nigeria well by beating Russia. We have the squad and quality to be able to do so.

Success wishes will not cease to come from us to them in all the match weather is for them to win or not the wishes will come sincerely, however are we sure the friendly match is still going to hold because they're not on the number of countries that will be having their friendly match on that day, so is it that they have change the date or they have cancel the match for the time being. Senegal is the only African country that has a friendly match on that day and I think Ireland will be the country they would be playing the friendly with, perhaps you can reconfirm it to be sure, though a lot of friendlies are on the day but mostly countries outside Africa.

[Fiatless]

The fact that the game is a friendly will also impact the intensity of the game. I am not expecting too much but a free flowing football game. My prayer  is that the Super Eagles represent Nigeria well by beating Russia. We have the squad and quality to be able to do so.

Some of the foreign based players might not honour the invitation to this friendly game. It should be an opportunity for coach Eric Chelle to test the ability of some new players. He could use this medium to develop strategies on how to maximize the talents at his disposal. But it seems friendly games also affect the FIFA ranking of national teams. Therefore, we expect the Super Eagles to make us proud.

[Kelward]

The fact that the game is a friendly will also impact the intensity of the game. I am not expecting too much but a free flowing football game. My prayer  is that the Super Eagles represent Nigeria well by beating Russia. We have the squad and quality to be able to do so.

Some of the foreign based players might not honour the invitation to this friendly game. It should be an opportunity for coach Eric Chelle to test the ability of some new players. He could use this medium to develop strategies on how to maximize the talents at his disposal. But it seems friendly games also affect the FIFA ranking of national teams. Therefore, we expect the Super Eagles to make us proud.

I don't expect to see all our star players in the friendly against Russia, a few might not feel obligated to play in the match and will find excuses to give. Friendlies are opportunities to try out some good players that are not on the first choice of the team and if they shine they can have a place in the first selections. I hope that the super eagles coach will use this friendly to try new players and work on new strategies to strengthen the team. Chelle, has an enormous task ahead of him to perform in the coming AFCON and qualify the team for the world cup. A win against Russia, will be a morale booster for the team irrespective of who played in the match.

[Slow death]

Won't be a bad game to bet, the super Eagles have some players with good quality, we know they can be inconsistent in some instances, especially looking at their world cup qualification challenges, but not withstanding, I haven't seen Russia national team play in a while, their presence in most European competitions have not been felt, so I really don't know how to place them at moment in terms of performance, so even if i want to bet, it will a bit difficult for me to place a bet, I will just rather keep an open mind and watch the outcome that game.

I honestly can't understand why Nigeria chose Russia to play in the friendlies, since Russia doesn't even have any relevance at world level in football when it comes to the national team. When a team really wants to achieve great things at world level, that team should try to play against very strong opponents such as: Spain, France, England, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Belgium.

because that way the Nigeria coach could have a better idea of ​​what to expect if Nigeria qualified for the World Cup, even if the coaches of these national teams did not put all their best players, it would still be worth playing against these great national teams.

[Davidvictorson]

Some of the foreign based players might not honour the invitation to this friendly game. It should be an opportunity for coach Eric Chelle to test the ability of some new players. He could use this medium to develop strategies on how to maximize the talents at his disposal. But it seems friendly games also affect the FIFA ranking of national teams. Therefore, we expect the Super Eagles to make us proud.

Definitely some foreign based players will most likely not honor the invitation. I feel like the coach is already in a hot seat because of his performance from the past and right now if he loses this friendly match it would not look good for his career prospects in the super eagles as the coach. Therefore he has to be careful on balancing the ratio of foreign based clears to homebased players. To goal is to win this game.

[Jaycoinz]

Some of the foreign based players might not honour the invitation to this friendly game. It should be an opportunity for coach Eric Chelle to test the ability of some new players. He could use this medium to develop strategies on how to maximize the talents at his disposal. But it seems friendly games also affect the FIFA ranking of national teams. Therefore, we expect the Super Eagles to make us proud.

Definitely some foreign based players will most likely not honor the invitation. I feel like the coach is already in a hot seat because of his performance from the past and right now if he loses this friendly match it would not look good for his career prospects in the super eagles as the coach. Therefore he has to be careful on balancing the ratio of foreign based clears to homebased players. To goal is to win this game.

For me I think they should just let the man do what he deems fit that would yeild results for him because after all the politics and talks winning of matches is still what's important most because in all getting the results is what matters most and with all the pressure being mounted on him it's much likely that he slips up and fumble because I believe most of these players don't even face such pressure as the coaches themselves.

[Marykeller]

Won't be a bad game to bet, the super Eagles have some players with good quality, we know they can be inconsistent in some instances, especially looking at their world cup qualification challenges, but not withstanding, I haven't seen Russia national team play in a while, their presence in most European competitions have not been felt, so I really don't know how to place them at moment in terms of performance, so even if i want to bet, it will a bit difficult for me to place a bet, I will just rather keep an open mind and watch the outcome that game.

I honestly can't understand why Nigeria chose Russia to play in the friendlies, since Russia doesn't even have any relevance at world level in football when it comes to the national team. When a team really wants to achieve great things at world level, that team should try to play against very strong opponents such as: Spain, France, England, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Belgium.

because that way the Nigeria coach could have a better idea of ​​what to expect if Nigeria qualified for the World Cup, even if the coaches of these national teams did not put all their best players, it would still be worth playing against these great national teams.

You want the teams you mentioned to disgrace the Super Eagles in the field of play. If I can remember vividly, the last time we faced the Portugal team in a friendly match in 2022, the scoreline was 4 nil against the Super Eagles. Bruno Fernandez said that the Super Eagles are no match for them, at the end of the match. You can imagine if the Super Eagles at this time requested for any friendly match from the teams you mentioned, do you think they will honor it when they check that the Super Eagles are not performing well, and are below their match.

The Russia team are of the Super Eagles grade currently, let the Super Eagles challenge them, to see how good or bad their performance can be.

[Fiatless]

I honestly can't understand why Nigeria chose Russia to play in the friendlies, since Russia doesn't even have any relevance at world level in football when it comes to the national team. When a team really wants to achieve great things at world level, that team should try to play against very strong opponents such as: Spain, France, England, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Belgium.

because that way the Nigeria coach could have a better idea of ​​what to expect if Nigeria qualified for the World Cup, even if the coaches of these national teams did not put all their best players, it would still be worth playing against these great national teams.

Russia is under a competitive football ban, which has made it not to feature in any FIFA-organized competitions. But they have been actively playing friendly games. They have played with lowly rated teams like Syria, Belarus, Brunei, Grenada, Qatar, Cuba Iraq, Vietnam Serbia, and Iran in the past few years. The Russian side have won seven of their last game showing that they are a formidable side. The Nigerian Super Eagles should just use the match as a preparation for other important games. I also be that it is difficult to secure a slot for a friendly match with these top European countries since they will be very selective.

[Callido]

The 2026 World Cup Qualification:

Nigerian Super Eagles is in the danger zone of the group and their qualification is very slim. And the Super Eagles have to secure all the remaining 12 points to qualify has the best team in the group and in that case they have to win all the remaining 4 games to get the 12 points.
The third leg of the World Cup Qualifiers will kick start from September to October 2025.

I don't agree when you say Super Eagles are the best team in the group, nothing makes us the best when we are not topping our group table, we are less behind others, we have the squad but still failing. Haven't you wondered that each international break we play our games we get shortened with slim chances we had to qualify, we haven't been making decent progress, the last two matches played we were supposed to win to give us more acceptance of playing in the World Cup we drew one of them, sincerely i am not expecting much from Super Eagles, if we can't beat our fellow African Nations freely to qualify what are we going to play when we face teams from different continents.

[snipie]

-snip-

The Russian national football team isn't that bad, we could consider it as a medium or above the medium team Internationally before being sanctioned. Such situation will make it eager to play against other nations that aren't fully pro western. Super Eagles took that challenge because there will be some competition since the levels are close to each others.
I think Nigeria national team isn't in its best form right now so risking to get a heavy defeat by a top European team might impact negatively the team.

[DiMarxist]

The 2026 World Cup Qualification:

Nigerian Super Eagles is in the danger zone of the group and their qualification is very slim. And the Super Eagles have to secure all the remaining 12 points to qualify has the best team in the group and in that case they have to win all the remaining 4 games to get the 12 points.
The third leg of the World Cup Qualifiers will kick start from September to October 2025.

I don't agree when you say Super Eagles are the best team in the group, nothing makes us the best when we are not topping our group table, we are less behind others, we have the squad but still failing. Haven't you wondered that each international break we play our games we get shortened with slim chances we had to qualify, we haven't been making decent progress, the last two matches played we were supposed to win to give us more acceptance of playing in the World Cup we drew one of them, sincerely i am not expecting much from Super Eagles, if we can't beat our fellow African Nations freely to qualify what are we going to play when we face teams from different continents.

That should be a clear statement for you to understand. I didn't say Super Eagles are the best in the group. Please you can reread the paragraph to understand it. If they win all the remaining 4 games and acquired the 12 points the. They will be the best team in the group. And I used words like " Super Eagles (players) have to Secure" so it is futuristic and not present tense of "are" as you used.
And as others have said in the different programs and channels of communications about the Super Eagles football style this season, they will not qualified in this season because it is not possible for them to win all the 4 games. Though there is an another chance given to them to join the World Cup by FIFA deducting South Africa Bafana Bafana 3 points.

[Pokapoka124]

The 2026 World Cup Qualification:

Nigerian Super Eagles is in the danger zone of the group and their qualification is very slim. And the Super Eagles have to secure all the remaining 12 points to qualify has the best team in the group and in that case they have to win all the remaining 4 games to get the 12 points.
The third leg of the World Cup Qualifiers will kick start from September to October 2025.

Their last draw against Zimbabwe would have been better if it was a win, it would have elevated them in points but the draw just made the task much harder. Now they need to win the coming games to stand a chance of earning qualification to the world cup. The big question on my mind is why must we play poorly and depend on others failure to achieve what we want because that is where we are heading towards again.

[Agbamoni]

I honestly can't understand why Nigeria chose Russia to play in the friendlies, since Russia doesn't even have any relevance at world level in football when it comes to the national team. When a team really wants to achieve great things at world level, that team should try to play against very strong opponents such as: Spain, France, England, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Belgium.

because that way the Nigeria coach could have a better idea of ​​what to expect if Nigeria qualified for the World Cup, even if the coaches of these national teams did not put all their best players, it would still be worth playing against these great national teams.

Russia is under a competitive football ban, which has made it not to feature in any FIFA-organized competitions. But they have been actively playing friendly games. They have played with lowly rated teams like Syria, Belarus, Brunei, Grenada, Qatar, Cuba Iraq, Vietnam Serbia, and Iran in the past few years. The Russian side have won seven of their last game showing that they are a formidable side. The Nigerian Super Eagles should just use the match as a preparation for other important games. I also be that it is difficult to secure a slot for a friendly match with these top European countries since they will be very selective.

The countries you mentioned the Russian team played friendlies against and won are not that of a tough side you know. So i won't count them to be a formidable side (am glad you called them low rated teams) knowing full well the Super Eagles has played several tournaments. Although i will agree that the team should prepare using this game to practise different tactics to see which works better. In the meantime, i will watch the game to observe how weak or prepared the Super Eagles is for the upcoming big games.